Press Release: Coalition of Immokalee Workers
24 Jan 2006 - 08:26
Prometheus and CIW Partner on Radio Barnraising
November 25, 2003

Contact: Damara Luce, 239.822.2979, Pete Tridish 215.605.9297

Coalition of Immokalee Workers Launches Multi-Lingual Community Radio Station
 Nationally Recognized Farmworker Organization to Have a Voice of Its Own

IMMOKALEE, FLORIDA --The Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), in partnership with the Prometheus Radio Project, will launch its new worker-run radio station (WCTI-FM) on Sunday evening, December 7th, following a 3-day media conference. In the spirit of neighbors pulling together to put up a new building, CIW and Prometheus organizers will gather hundreds of Low Power FM Radio applicants, journalists, radio engineers, students, lawyers, musicians, and activists from across the U.S. to raise the antenna mast, finish the studio, and flip on the station switch!

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New FCC Commissioners Unanimously Support the Local Community Radio Act
19 Sep 2009 - 16:38

For Immediate Release: New FCC Commissioners Unanimously Support the Local
Community Radio Act
Bipartisan bill would expand low power radio

Contact:
Cory Fischer-Hoffman, Prometheus Radio Project (610) 761-5414
Pete Tridish, Prometheus Radio Project (215) 605-9297

September 17, 2009

Washington DC -- In the first Congressional oversight hearing since the
three new FCC Commissioners took office, all five Commissioners endorsed the
Local Community Radio Act HR 1147/ S592, unanimously reaffirming the FCC’s
continued support for the bill.

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